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Clean Getaway: Meat Waste Joins Biofuels At Luxury Jet Show

By Allison Lampert

LAS VEGAS, Oct 22 (Reuters) – At the world’s most significant market program in Las Vegas luxury jets are drawing buyers with their sleek shapes, plush cabins – and increasingly, their usage of alternative fuels.

Fuel producers and jetmakers are eager to display unique forms of aviation fuel deemed less hazardous to the climate, from used cooking oil to the noticeably less glamorous meat waste.

Business jet operators, like airline companies, have actually bowed to environmental pressure on air travel and committed to halving carbon emissions by 2050 compared with 2005.

Their hope is that embracing renewable fuel to suppress emissions could make organization jets more appealing to ecologically conscious buyers – especially corporations dealing with questions over sustainability from investors or green project groups.

The schedule of less polluting private jets could likewise spare the abundant and popular the unfavorable publicity experienced by Britain’s Prince Harry and his better half Meghan over a recent private jet journey to southern France.

Five Gulfstream jets on display screen in Las Vegas are using California-produced fuel from inedible .

The most recent waste-based fuels consist of “fats, grease and oils that are byproducts of the food industry,” said Bryan Sherbacow, primary commercial officer of Boston-based biofuel manufacturer World Energy, which produces fuel from meat waste utilized by Gulfstream.

“All of our product is inedible.”

Some of the other 79 aircraft on screen are anticipated to be powered by 150,000 gallons of other renewable fuel mixes anticipated to be pumped at the program.

FLIGHT SHAMING

Private jets represent less than 0.1% of total yearly carbon emissions worldwide, however can produce, usually, as much as 20 times more carbon emissions per guest mile than jetliners, according to the London-based personal charter company Victor.

Prince Harry has safeguarded his occasional usage of private jets to ensure his family’s safety, and has said that on the uncommon events he does not fly commercially he offsets his emissions.

But planemakers state events such as the furore over his schedule have included fresh obstacles for an industry currently striving to justify its contribution to cutting business costs.

“Incidents of flight shaming including using private jets are regrettable when you consider that our market has actually delivered fuel effectiveness enhancements of 40% over the past 40 years,” said Bombardier Aviation President David Coleal.

Bombardier believes increased sustainable fuel use will assist the industry make inroads with corporations and rich purchasers. According to market data, billionaires only have a 19% organization jet ownership rate.

But even an image remodeling – with jets sporting stickers like “this aircraft flies on renewable fuels” and organisers including alternative fuel pumps for visiting airplanes – is not likely to satisfy all critics at the Oct 22-24 luxury jet occasion.

Environmentalists and some experts remain skeptical that biojetfuels, usually combined 50-50 with kerosene, will make a substantial effect on public understandings about luxury travel.

“No amount of jatropha curcas or Brazil-nut fuel can make business jets look eco-friendly,” stated aviation analyst Richard Aboulafia.

Demand from service jet operators for renewable fuels now far exceeds supply and their interest could drive future production, Sherbacow said.

World Energy, which produces 40 million gallons of biofuel at its California plant, could broaden production approximately 150 million gallons by 2022.

Corporate charter business and experts are also seeing more interest from consumers who wish to buy carbon credits to offset emissions from their flights.

Brian Proctor, CEO of Mente Group, a U.S. consultancy, stated emissions contributed in a business jet usage study his business just recently completed for a Fortune 500 company.

“At the end of the day, I believe that cost, expense per hour, variety, speed and efficiency, that’s still the (sales) chauffeur. But I think individuals are becoming more conscious of the sustainability of operations and how it affects the world.” (Reporting By Allison Lampert, Editing by Tim Hepher and Alexandra Hudson)